Message-meter device



. H. H. KNIPE.

MESSAGE METER DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG 28,1919

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MESSAGE METER DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED AUG.28, 1919.

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HENRY H. KNIFE, 0F OLNEY, ILLINOIS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 28, 1919.'- Serial No. 820512.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY H. KNIFE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ulney, in the county of Richland and State of Illinois, .hzlessage-Meter ing is a specification. V

The object of my invention is to provide an improved device adapted to enable telephone operators to more conveniently make and keep their record of toll business, and atthe same time to provide a device which is not too expensive for small exchanges. It is further my object to provide a device of such shape and size that it can be placed 7 between two operators positions on most i about it that is expensive to maintain. The

magneto or common battery boards and which can be conveniently placed with brackets even with the operators keys on the end of the board. I attain the objects of my invention by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, 1n wh1ch Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device ready for use;

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation; and

Fig. 4: is a top plan. 7

Like numerals designate like parts in each of the views.

Referring to the accompanying drawings 1 provide a suitable narrow base plate 1 of sufficient width to accommodate an especially tabulated pad 11 on, which the record of message is entered. I provide a raised portion or platform 2 at one end of plate.

1, on which is formed the upstanding plate portions 3 and 5, which with spring 4 provide a support for the timing device 16. Mounted on platform 2, as shown in Fig. 2, I provide a bar 7 on which an o erating lever 6 is aff xed atone end. Bar vided with L-shaped fingers 9 adapted to engage spring 8 attached to bar 7 and platform 2 and arranged to resiliently press fingers 9 onto pad 11, subject to their release by depressing lever 6, 1 I

have invented a new and useful- Device, of which the follow- 7 plate, a bar is proand hold the tab 11. I provide a' Mounted at one side of platform 2 1 provide a suitable counter 12' adapted to be manually operated by the operator depress- Counter 12 may be provided with a suitable resetting wheel 14:. 'Onthe other side of Patented Aug. areas. I

platform 2 I provide a dating pad 15'positioned within the platform as illustrated in the drawings and adapted tohold a dating stamp (of ordinary construction and not p shown) Base plate 1 is provided with suitable openings 17 for securing it firmly to, the

table on which the device is placed when it is desired to fasten it in one place.

The message meter device has nothing one wearing part is the timing device 16.

operator who numbers .eachtoll ticket on held by the device 15. What Inclaim is:, f

the pad'll and keeps a complete record of calls, eachticket being. dated for the par-- ticular day by the pad and dater which is 1., As a new' article of manufacture, 1 a

I metal holder of the type described comprising a narrow base plate suitable. for holdinga pad, a raised platform atone end of the plate, upstanding plate portions at tions being shaped to receive aclock, and a spring secured to the rear of the aforethe rear of the raised platformsaid porf said platform and releasably holding the clock place. p

2. In combination withthe metal holder described in claim ;1, L-shaped fingerspro-' jecting through the platform and adapted toreleasablyengage and hold a pad on the rotatably mounted on the plat- 1 form to which the L-shaped fingers are at- 1 tached, a spring attached at one end to the bar and at the other. end to the platform to normally rotateth'ebar and compress the L-shapedfingers downward, and anoperatto one end of the bar.-

HENRYH. KNIFE.

ing lever attached 5e mg the finger lever 13 to register a message. 7 

